The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it’s worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn’t without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation’s largest banks are posting record profits. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Let’s embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we’re saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don’t just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance. Maria Cantwell Read Quote
